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Lauren Emery Smith, MD

Anesthesiology · Palo Alto

NPI 1437531662

Medicare standing
Clear
Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
Plans that list them
Not verified
Not the same as out of network.
Office
1

Offices

1 location

Plan participation

Not verified

We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Smith’s office at (650) 497-8000 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.

California Medical Board record

Licence A162147 · Current

Licensed to practise in California · since 2019 · expires 2027-04-30 · University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.

No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.

Original Medicare doctor bills

$6,159

Medicare paid this office $6,159 for 21 people.

This is what Medicare paid the clinician — not Medicare Advantage, and not the pharmacy.

Who their Medicare patients are

21 Original Medicare patients in 2024. Average age 74 · Health risk score 1.03. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical anesthesiology clinician is at 1.54.

Conditions among them: High blood pressure 67%.

The office billed $41,624, Medicare allowed $7,730 and paid $6,159; for 21 services of 14 kinds.

Original Medicare patients only. A risk score of 1.0 is the average Medicare patient; higher means sicker. Any count under 11 is hidden.

Medicaid work

$2,373 in 2024

Medicaid paid $2,373 for 13 billed services this clinician did in 2024, up to 13 people in a month for one service.

Medicaid and CHIP claims where this clinician did the service, fee-for-service and managed care together. Any month with fewer than 11 patients is hidden, so small Medicaid practices undercount.

Largest Medicaid services in 2024
Anesthesia for intraoral procedure13$2,373
Medicaid work by year
202413113$2,373

Money from drug and device companies

$46 in 2024

Industry payments by year
202422None$46
201911$100$100

Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.

A payment is not proof that care is biased.

Payments by company
Edwards LifesciencesHemosphere$30
1 payment
  • Meals for Hemosphere · 2024-06-28 · $30
Merck Sharp & DohmeBridion$16
1 payment
  • Meals for Bridion · 2024-07-23 · $16
See all 2 published payments
Every published payment
Merck Sharp & DohmeMeals · 2024-07-23Bridion$16
Edwards LifesciencesMeals · 2024-06-28Hemosphere$30
See earlier years (2019)

2019: $100

Payments by company in 2019
ComsortBridion$100
1 payment
  • Consulting for Bridion · 2019-08-01 · $100

Professional record

NPI
1437531662
Licence
CA A162147California A162147: Current · expires 2027-04-30
More record details
Sole proprietor
No
Taxonomy
Federal specialty code 207L00000X (207L00000X); Federal specialty code 207LP3000X (207LP3000X)
Mailing address
725 Welsh Rd, Palo Alto, CA, 94304
NPI first listed
2015-06-24
NPI last updated
2022-07-06
NPI record certified
2022-07-06

This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.